A Future Prophet's Conversion

"Wilford left home when he was twenty. For three years he worked at his Aunt Helen's flour mill. He read the Bible during his free time and prayed frequently. He and his brother Azmon then bought a farm near Richland, New York. While they were out in fields one day, two Mormon missionaries came to the house and talked to Azmon's wife. Without waiting to eat supper, Wilford left to attend their meeting at the schoolhouse. Because of what he had been taught as a child - that the church of Christ was not on earth at the time but would one day be restored, and that what he had read in the Bible supported the doctrines that church would espouse - Wilford knew instantly that what at the missionaries said was true. He was baptized on a cold, wintry day in December 1833. The snow was three feet deep and the water was mixed with ice and snow, but he said he didn't feel the cold. His brother Azmon was baptized at the same time." ("Mothers of the Prophets" by Arrington, Madsen, and Jones)

As I read this, my heart was touched. I love how the truthfulness of the gospel was manifest to President Wilford Woodruff so strongly! His stepmother had prepared his heart, and when the gospel was shared with him, he knew it was what he had been looking for. It strengthens my testimony that if our hearts are prepared, when truth is taught, we will recognize it. I hope to prepare my heart and the hearts of my family for this very reason!